Bacchus n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
Maya Angelou
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Mark Twain
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Mark Twain
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character, happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset Maugham
My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
Rodney Dangerfield
Forests, lakes and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden
